When you compress video for on-demand streaming, you primarily care about three things; quality, quality and... let's see, oh yes, quality. If you're been encoding H.264 video with Apple Compressor ...

This week, Telestream announced the availability of an open source H.265 (HEVC) encoder, co-founded and managed by MulticoreWare Inc. I had a chance to speak with Telestream CTO Shawn Carnahan about ...

Taylor worked with AP from 2018 to 2025, most recently as Google Editor. Testing by Facebook engineers found that the Alliance for Open Media's new video codec, AV1, outperforms widely-used standards ...

Codecs are constantly changing and evolving, learn the latest in x264 with a free webinar from Moviola! Delivery has become a major question in the filmmaking process, from dailies all the way to ...

Netflix released new details of its own streaming tests recently -- including a huge effort to determine whether x265 (HEVC), VP9, or x264 should be used for future projects. Share on Facebook (opens ...

Blu-ray video authoring is an expensive proposition, but recently, an open source software group has developed the basis for an alternative to expensive proprietary software. Soon, making your own BD ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. With six new codecs to consider by the end of 2021, it’s worth reviewing factors that contribute ...

I realize that these are fairly difficult codecs, and that a lot of mobile devices won't play them out of the box. I'm planning on picking up a Samsung Galaxy Tab S2 8.0 in a few hours (when the ...

MOSCOW: The Graphics and Media Lab at Moscow State University recently released the results of its comparison of Google’s WebM VP8 codec with MPEG-4/H.264. VP8 is a royalty-free, open-source codec ...

Guys I would like to ask about audio quality when playing back xvids or x264 files. From what I'm noticed xvids have better sound than x264's for example if I watch a tv show that was converted to ...

A test conducted by the social media giant Facebook shows that the AV1 codec performs better than x264 and libvpx-vp9 codecs in most common real-world scenarios. The AV1 codec is a royalty-free and ...

In its 2015 HEVC/H.265 Video Codec Comparison report, Moscow State University (MSU) concluded that Intel® Media Server Studio’s HEVC codec showed significant competitive advantages in the Fast ...